Emergency alarms are
wearable product technologies that allow the user to alert
designated contacts in the event of falls or medical
emergencies and were chosen as a case study for this
paper. The findings indicate, that while the animated
scenarios provide a basis for participants to describe
problems associated with using the emergency alarm
technology, participants also used the animated scenarios
to discus and evaluate the key emotions and themes that
were presented. We refer to this process as co-evaluate. It
is argued that animated scenarios can be used to validate
the HCI designers’ understanding and interpretation of
early user research insights and themes.